Labor emboldened in high tax strategy
These days Labor feels not just vindicated but emboldened about its tax policies. But is the revenue it is banking on realistic and has it gone too far?
Macquarie private bank, wealth to merge
Macquarie Group has confirmed redundancies will result from a merger of its private wealth division and private bank. Sources suggested more than 37 adviser cuts.
Beware the bond yield danger zone
The world's top fund managers are questioning how far bond yields have to rise before triggering a major US share market sell-off now that the 10-year government bond yield has powered through its 2014 peak to settle at 3.1 per cent.
Analysts slash Myer forecasts
Analysts have cut profit forecasts for Myer and say the department store chain is closer to breaching debt covenants.
CFMEU: keep calm and reform IR
John Setka and Sally McManus are setting the workplace agenda. Why is the Turnbull government letting them do it?
ASX in the red on Westpac, Treasury
The ASX closed lower on Thursday as Westpac traded ex-dividend and Treasury Wine fell on oversupply concerns.
Key AMP advice executive resigns
AMP's chief risk officer for its under fire financial advice division announced his impending departure via an emotive LinkedIn post.
ASIC puts financial advisers on notice
The corporate regulator has laid out plans to speed up its investigations into wealth management firms, warning of a new era of more "intensive, dedicated" oversight.
Diplomatic tensions with China temporary
The head of Chinese giant Sinosteel's operations in Australia says he is convinced problems with China will pass.
99-year-old ups Godfreys takeover bid
The 99-year-old major shareholder of beleaguered Godfreys has lifted his takeover bid for the retailer.
Santos receives $13.7b binding bid
Santos suitor Harbour Energy has submitted a binding but conditional proposal for the takeover of the oil and gas producer, with revised terms but without sweetening its offer price.
Treasury Wine Estate shares fall 10pc on China glut
Shares in Treasury Wine Estates fell 10 per cent on Thursday morning, on news that the company was facing a supply glut in China.
Templeton doubles down on Argentina
Funds controlled by Templeton, run by Michael Hasenstab, bought $US2.3 billion of bonds denominated in Argentine pesos.
Markets Live: ASX falls on Westpac, Treasury
The Australian market has closed lower today as Westpac trades ex-dividend and Treasury Wine falls.
Inflation shock could come from anywhere
An inflationary shock would force the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates faster than anticipated, warns Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes.
Citi downgrades a2 Milk
Citi has downgraded its recommendation on a2 Milk and slashed his target price after the company disappointed investors with its revenue outlook.
Opinion
ACCC's line in the road for Transurban
The ACCC concerns about Transurban's bid for WestConnex raises questions about the toll road's giant Australian growth ambitions.
SMEs won't be clear cut for banking royal commission
The next round of Hayne royal commission hearings may not provide a banking and finance bloodbath because lending to SMEs is not so black and white.
InfoTrack goes after PEXA
David Wills, the former investment banker in charge of business development at Rich Lister Christian Beck's InfoTrack, is set to disrupt the $1b sales process for PEXA.
Setka case doesn't reflect reality
The decision by the Victorian DPP to drop blackmail charges against two senior construction union officials is a complete humiliation for the Turnbull government.
Adani stands down engineering firm
Indian energy giant Adani says it still has a string of consultants and contractors on its books, despite engineering and advisory firm AECOM being asked to "stand-down" from its work on the mega-mine and rail project in Central Queensland.
New Vic gas fields 'not enough' to shift pricing
Beach Energy says discoveries in the new fields are highly unlikely to make a difference to the extremely tight east-coast gas supply-demand balance.
Setka defends 'fighting outside the law'
CFMEU leader John Setka has argued his union's success is a result of breaking industrial laws in an interview released a day after his blackmail case was dropped.
Liberals rally around Sudmalis
PM Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison have sought to head off another female Liberal being rolled, showering praise on NSW MP Ann Sudmalis.
Jobless rate lifts to 5.6pc despite extra jobs
Australia's jobless rate rose in April to the highest in nine months, even after employment growth rebounded
Cohen solicited $1.3m from Qatar
President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, solicited a payment of at least $1.3 million from the government of Qatar in late 2016, in exchange for access to and advice about the then-incoming administration.
Japan's Sumitomo may curb coal-fired power lending
Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui may rethink its financing of coal-fired power projects.
FBI's secret mission to interview Downer
The FBI dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.
Trump vents over immigrant 'animals'
President Donald Trump lashed out at unauthorised immigrants during a White House meeting, warning in front of news cameras that dangerous people were clamouring to breach the country's borders and branding such people "animals".
French energy giant warns of Iran exit
Total joined other European companies in signalling it could exit Iran unless it receives a sanctions waiver from the US.
Personal Finance
Gender savings gaps the biggest challenge: Dwyer
The retiring chief executive of First State Super says pension funds must deal with the growing gender savings gap.
The stocks exciting Rich Lister Seymour
Kevin Seymour has had a long career in property, yet such is his enthusiasm for the sharemarket that he once even formed his own funds management company.
ATO overhauls fraud procedures
The Australian Tax Office has strengthened the rules governing how findings of fraud or evasion can be made against taxpayers.
Big Four firms plan for UK break-up
The Big Four accountancy firms have drawn up contingency plans for a break-up of their UK businesses.
CPA's board prepares to battle members once more
The battle over the way the troubled CPA Australia is run in the post-Alex Malley era is set to come to a head at the accounting body's annual general meeting next week.
'Too many part-time directors'
The AMP ruckus will ultimately be a turning point for better boardrooms in corporate Australia says Diane Smith-Gander, who says there are "too many part-time directors".
Boards need a bigger pool of female experience
Female board appointments are hitting the right pace -- but it is stretching the supply of women with the right hands-on management experience, writes former ASX CEO Elmer Funke Kuper.
Lifestyle
Sydney secrets: how the city has changed in 200 years
Long before the Opera House occupied the tip of Bennelong Point, the castle-like Fort Macquarie once dominated Circular Quay.
